The legacy forum user pages are a mess.... the HTML and PHP is based on 10 year+ old code which was poorly written to support the nutty idea of "custom user CSS"... which maybe was a cute idea a decade ago but now it is just bad code.
So, my idea is to basically change the user profile page to Bootstrap modal which will popup over the same page when a user's name is clicked; and stop the default behavior of taking people to a new page (which looks bad anyway, so we are not losing much in the way of modern features, LOL).
This means I'll more-than-likely use Bootstrap to create anew modal with the same basic user information we have on those pages now, but it will be in a popup modal versus a new page.
OK.... I'm off and running on these User Profile modals.... currently starting to work on to get thing rolling along on this page (about 1/3 of the way there):
OK.... this new User Information Modal (UIM) with Bootstrap Tabs is now live in many areas of the forums including:
Who Is Online (WOL)
Search Results
Thank You Box
Member List
In All Posts (Left Side, Post Header)
Home page in the What's Up? Active Users Currently Active Users box
Home page Newest Member
The modal will not work properly on the Home Page in the Advanced Stats area, so I plan to create a new page using the model (partially done, but I need to add the navbar and footer).
Please post if you want to see any additional information or have suggestions for future enhancements.
We will be completely phasing out the legacy user profile pages over time. In fact, have already created a new "flat page" using the Bootstrap tabs from the modal to replace the legacy page in areas where the modal cannot be used, for example:
